††††† NECESSITY,
FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 257.070 requires that importation of animals into
Kentucky complies with administrative regulations promulgated by the board. KRS
257.030 authorizes the board to establish necessary quarantines and other
measures to control the movement of livestock into, through, or within
Kentucky. This administrative regulation establishes a technique for the
treatment of a mare imported into Kentucky from a country listed in 9 C.F.R.
93.301 as a country affected by contagious equine metritis (CEM).

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1. Definitions. (1) "Application to import" means a request to import
a horse or horses to a single specific farm or quarantine facility that
includes submission of the Import Mare Agreement Form upon importation of the
horse.

††††† (2)
"Approved veterinarian" means a licensed veterinarian who is
accredited to do regulatory work by the United States Department of Agriculture
and who has physically demonstrated proper swabbing and sampling methods to a
representative of the Office of the State Veterinarian.

††††† (3)
"CEM" means contagious equine metritis.

††††† (4)
"CF test" means a complement-fixation test on equine serum for the
detection of antibodies to the contagious equine metritis bacterium.

††††† (5)
"Cleansing of a stallion" means thorough washing, using warm water,
of the external genitalia of the stallion with the penis in full erection.

††††† (6)
"Mare" means a female horse over 731 days of age.

††††† (7)
"Set of swabs" means a swab obtained from the clitoral sinus and
clitoral fossa.

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2. A mare imported into Kentucky for breeding from a country known to be
affected by CEM shall be tested and treated for Contagious Equine Metritis by
or under the direct supervision of a Kentucky approved veterinarian who is
approved by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture according to the procedures
established in this section.

††††† (1)
Prior to importation, the premises shall be inspected by a representative of
the Office of the State Veterinarian and USDA Veterinary Services Guidance
13406.1 shall be completed at the time of inspection and signed by the farm
manager.

††††† (2)
Following arrival into Kentucky, the approved veterinarian shall determine the
mareís pregnancy status, review the prescribed testing and treatment schedule,
and submit to the Office of the State Veterinarian the reported findings and
acceptance or required amendments to the testing schedule based on the conditions
of the mare by completing the Import Mare Agreement Form and Import Mare CEM
Plan and Worksheet Form.

††††† (3)
During the course of the quarantine, the approved veterinarian shall collect
and submit for CEM culture three (3) sets of swabs from the mare. The sets of
swabs shall be collected during a twelve (12) day period with a minimal of seventy-two
(72) hours lapsing between each set being collected. Mares determined and
reported to be non-pregnant shall have an additional swab collected from the
endometrium or distal cervix included with the third set of swabs.

††††† (4)
Following the third set of swabs being submitted for culture, the approved
veterinarian shall manually remove all organic debris from the clitoral fossa
and sinuses. The sinuses shall then be flushed with an approved ceruminolytic
agent until all remaining debris has been removed. The approved veterinarian
shall, for five (5) consecutive days, wash and clean (scrub), with a solution
of not less than two (2) percent chlorhexidine in a detergent base, the
external genitalia, vaginal vestibule, clitoral fossa, and clitoral sinuses.
The clitoral fossa, clitoral sinuses, external genitalia, and vaginal vestibule
shall be filled and covered with an antibiotic ointment that is effective
against the CEM organism and is approved by USDA and the Kentucky State
Veterinarian.

††††† (5)
After the procedures established in subsections (1) and (2) of this section
have been satisfactorily completed and all three (3) of the swabs are reported
to the department as testing negative for CEM bacterium, the imported mare may
be released from quarantine by the department.

††††† (6)
Before the imported mare may be bred in Kentucky, a swab shall be collected
from the endometrium and cultured negative for CEM. This swab may be included
with any of the three (3) required sets of swabs, or for a pregnant mare, may
be collected after foaling.

††††† (7)
An imported mare bred in Kentucky shall be prophylactically scrubbed and bred
last of the group of mares bred during that session. The external genitalia of
the covering stallion shall be cleansed, as defined in Section 1 of this
administrative regulation, after breeding an imported mare. The next three (3)
mares bred to the stallion, after the imported mare, shall have a blood sample
collected and submitted for CF testing fifteen (15) to twenty-five (25) days
postbreeding. Included with the submission of the sample shall be the name of
the imported mare that was bred prior to the mare being tested, and the name of
the covering stallion, date, and time bred.

††††† (8)
The farmís management where the stallion is standing shall notify the owner or
agent of the three (3) mares bred to the stallion, following an imported mare,
that a postbreeding CF test is required.

††††† (9)
The farm where the stallion is standing shall contact the Kentucky State
Veterinarian and provide the name, breeding date, time, and location of the
imported mare covered, and the name, breeding date, time, and location of the
three (3) mares bred to the stallion following the imported mare.

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3. A CEM culture positive mare shall remain under quarantine and shall be
treated as described in Section 2(4) and (7) of this administrative regulation.
The mare shall have sets of swabs obtained, as described in Section 2(3) of
this administrative regulation, no less than twenty-one (21) days after the
last day of treatment. If all required specimens taken from the mare test
negative for the CEM bacterium, the mare may be released from quarantine.

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4. User fees shall be assessed for an equine import. (1)(a) An import broker
making application to import mares into Kentucky for completion of a CEM
quarantine shall be assessed and pay a fee for the processing, implementation,
and monitoring of the quarantine.

††††† (b)
If multiple destinations are declared for animals to be quarantined, each
listed destination shall constitute a separate application.

††††† (2)
An application processing and premise inspection fee of $100 shall be assessed
for each application received to import mares into Kentucky for completion of
the CEM quarantine.

††††† (3)
Upon receipt of the mare(s) at the quarantine facility, the broker shall be
assessed a fee of $120 per individual mare for the receipt, inspection,
quarantine, and monitoring to establish the animalís disease status during the
quarantine period.

††††† (4)
An import broker shall pay a fee for each shipment of mares which arrives at a
Kentucky quarantine destination on weekends, state-recognized holidays, and
between the hours of 5:01 p.m. and 6:59 a.m.

††††† (a)
For weekends and between the hours of 5:01 p.m. and 6:59 a.m., the assessed fee
shall be sixty (60) dollars per hour with a minimum of two (2) hours time
charged, including the travel time of KDA employees.

††††† (b)
For state-recognized holidays, the assessed fee shall be $120 per hour with a
minimum of two (2) hours charged. The holiday fee shall apply to all mares
received during the holiday period which runs from the close of business on the
last scheduled work day preceding the holiday, through the start of business on
the next scheduled work day following the holiday including the travel time of
KDA employees.

††††† (5)
The broker shall pay the assessed fees by check. The check shall be made
payable to the Kentucky State Treasurer and mailed to the Kentucky Department
of Agriculture, Office of State Veterinarian within ninety-six (96) hours of
receipt of the charges.

††††† (6)
Failure to comply with the user fee schedule may result in an application for
importation to be delayed or denied.

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5. The imported mare shall be released from quarantine if:

††††† (1)
The requirements of all sections of this administrative regulation have been
completed;

††††† (2)
The required specimens taken from the mare test negative for the CEM bacterium;
and

††††† (3)
No other evidence of CEM conditions, indication of possible CEM suppression, or
other related medical issues are found.

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6. Incorporation by Reference. (1) The following material is incorporated by
reference: